Pretty sure it's a conference play rule. Not sure if in the SEC they are required to stop or if the coaches can decide to play it out on their own.

JLyon would know.

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Think the coaches want to save their players. After today I see why. Line #1 was still in Second Set after 2 hrs, my match was 2 sets 2 hrs and the other matches were 3 setters outside #2.
Kentucky is sneaky good, they may not look it but they are stout at all lines.

Think the coaches are smart to just stop and not risk wearing out their players, especially in the SEC where it is dog fights every weekend.

I really don't like that. What difference does an hour make when the next match isn't until Sunday?

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Agreed. Just looking at the UF-UGA match, there were very close matches at 1&2 amongst all ranked players. A win either way strengthens resumes for gaining post season entry or seeding for individuals. 2 players in those matches lose out on that benefit.

Plus, I would think coaches want to know if they are 4-3 or 7-0 better than their opponent. Gives a more clear view of where your team is as a whole. I'm not a fan of stopping a regular season match. These kids are all working on getting better for a peak in May. They get mixed feedback when matches aren't played out.

will be interesting to see who gets booted out of the lineup by semenzato

i think they'll do a good bit of shuffling during the season and ultimately hemmeler will be focusing on dubs later in the year...maybe a chance that semenzato doesn't adjust to the college game quickly as well, always tough to tell until they play some big dual matches...i just have a hard time seeing tahir on the outside of the singles lineup considering the way he has stepped up with some bigtime results in the past 6 months

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Hey there Mike...tell me what is so special about this semenzato if you dont mind me asking?

SEC has been wild this year, really no clear favorite and it could be anyone's game depending on who shows up. Vanderbilt had an impressive showing this weekend.
Think UGA and KY are the favorites right now, but who knows anymore with all of the upsets

I am surprised at some of the rankings, the MS schools I thought would fall further. Vandy moving up not surprising.
Baylor still yo-yoing around. Think KY/UGA are the favorites. 7 SEC in Top 16 and 4 ACC in Top 16.

i know we have a lot of SEC fans in here, so maybe this won't go over well, but that conference is not as great this year as these rankings try to make us believe

not one single SEC team won a main draw match that wasn't against another SEC team in indoors (0-5 in the main draw, not counting the 2 wins and 2 losses coming from the two SEC vs SEC first rd matchups)

the rankings weigh wins far too heavily relative to losses in my opinion, which sets up perfectly for a deep conference like the SEC where everyone is beating everyone...(yes, they are the deepest conference in tennis, not arguing that)...so every week we have situations where a team like Ole Miss can lose a couple times and boost a couple other SEC teams (Kentucky up 6 spots, Vanderbilt up 10 spots) while barely suffering by themselves (only down from 4 to 7)

to use a Barney-ism from How I Met Your Mother - the SEC looks nice this year via the "cheerleader effect" - they're deep and make eachother look great in the rankings because everyone is picking up lots of nice victories, but none of them seem all that impressive to me...

seriously, UK is the highest ranked of them all right now and they showed they can lose to the Illini and can suffer back to back 6-1 and 4-0 losses to Baylor and A&M, teams ranked 29 and 14

OK, points well taken. Dont take this as an attack but you left something out. Tell us who is best tennis conference and why.

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SEC is the deepest and the conference I would most enjoy seeing my team play in, as I said above - so I think that already indicated that I think they're the best

but

1) there is approximately a zero percent chance that they will have a team in the NCAA finals this year, and depending on the draw I would say very unlikely they have a team in the semis (assuming they dont get to play eachother in quarters, but rather have to go through teams like UVA, USC, UCLA, OSU - which may not be the case)

and

2) if someone said to me (this is an extremely likely situation, so listen up): "go stand on the rail of the golden gate bridge - now a great college tennis team I have assembled is going to be playing two matches for your life - if they win both, you can step down - if they lose even one of the two, you have to jump to your death - which conference do you want me to pick your two opponents from?"

i would say SEC way way before i said PAC-12 or ACC...UVA comes up = big trouble, and Duke is as good as any team in the SEC...USC or UCLA come up = i'm in trouble, and Cal is just as good as any team in the SEC (they beat up UF 4-1 about to be 5-1 at Indoors)...no one in the SEC individually scares me the way the top of those other conferences does - and i think the top teams will treat them in NCAAs the same way they treated them in indoors

and i would say Big 10 after SEC also - OSU scares me more than any team in SEC, and Illinois already showed they can beat the highest ranked SEC team so they're in the mix with the top SEC teams as well (even if the Vols have had their number)

SEC is the deepest and the conference I would most enjoy seeing my team play in, as I said above - so I think that already indicated that I think they're the best

but

1) there is approximately a zero percent chance that they will have a team in the NCAA finals this year, and depending on the draw I would say very unlikely they have a team in the semis (assuming they dont get to play eachother in quarters, but rather have to go through teams like UVA, USC, UCLA, OSU - which may not be the case)

and

2) if someone said to me (this is an extremely likely situation, so listen up): "go stand on the rail of the golden gate bridge - now a great college tennis team I have assembled is going to be playing two matches for your life - if they win both, you can step down - if they lose even one of the two, you have to jump to your death - which conference do you want me to pick your two opponents from?"

i would say SEC way way before i said PAC-12 or ACC...UVA comes up = big trouble, and Duke is as good as any team in the SEC...USC or UCLA come up = i'm in trouble, and Cal is just as good as any team in the SEC (they beat up UF 4-1 about to be 5-1 at Indoors)...no one in the SEC individually scares me the way the top of those other conferences does - and i think the top teams will treat them in NCAAs the same way they treated them in indoors

and i would say Big 10 after SEC also - OSU scares me more than any team in SEC, and Illinois already showed they can beat the highest ranked SEC team so they're in the mix with the top SEC teams as well (even if the Vols have had their number)

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Agree as far as overall depth goes the SEC is it. It's only a matter of a year or so that things could swing back their way to have a top 4 type team(s) depending on recruiting. I would only disagree in that I see at least one or two SEC teams making the quarters at the NCAA this year. However as little luck of the draw will have to work for them. But I think they have enough teams good enough between 6-12 best type that two will make it through.

For fun, I would like to see FL play Cal outdoors. Pick FL. Maybe I'll get my wish at the NCAA's

For a final 4 I would go with your UVA, USC, UCLA, OSU as my pick to make it to this round.

Not sure I'm following the rational here saying the SEC is easy to win. In the SEC today who will easily win it? Are talking about "candy and nuts" and magically inserting USC, Ucla, UVA or OSU in there?

Not sure I'm following the rational here saying the SEC is easy to win. In the SEC today who will easily win it? Are talking about "candy and nuts" and magically inserting USC, Ucla, UVA or OSU in there?

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It doesn't matter how many times I read your signature. It makes me laugh every time.

Not sure I'm following the rational here saying the SEC is easy to win. In the SEC today who will easily win it? Are talking about "candy and nuts" and magically inserting USC, Ucla, UVA or OSU in there?